In Now You See Me: a memoir, Nicole C. Kear philosophises about self-awareness. Kear establishes the main character, Nicole, facing head on with a degenerative eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa, at only the age of nineteen; she devotes the rest of her life to see and do all the things she can. Kear uses all of her intuitive plans to represent her self-awareness because she tries to live her life in the moment, she realizes that she is never guaranteed another day so sight, so she must fulfill everysight filled day. The theme of self-awareness is significant to the novel because it clearly justifies all of the protagonists action or concerns.
Self awareness can be sensed numerous times through Kear’s story.Subsequent …show more content…
It isn't until she is almost 33 years to be mature enough to grasp the full density of the situation. She contacts the an association for the blind and blind learning how to live a life with the lights out. ‘“I needed to redirect the strength and resourcefulness id devoted to covering up my disease to learning how to cope with it. (217)”. A new mind set and awareness over takes her from living life with two young children, it is this that causes her to give in and take control of her situation rather than attempt to ignore it and hope for the best. Like any good parent, she's extremely concerned for their wellbeing and future,: it's scary for any parent and especially if you won't be able to see what's coming. “The next week I made an appointment with the low-vision ophthalmologist who worked with the New York Commision for the Blind. “I think I'm legally blind, I said to the receptionist” and I need to know where to go from here.”(218) The final hope of a perfect happy ending is long past the horizon. Kear formally states the end to her action movie ending and replaces it with the reality and it's ultimately the self awareness for this to be so. Though the disease it started as a rock hard blow to gut it turned to a reality and Nicole was able to cope and create a life all her